EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi is heading into production on new film A Hero, we can reveal. The Farsi-language project will enter pre-production in two months and is due to shoot …
with Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem. We hear the drama is suspenseful – in keeping with Farhadi’s oeuvre – and that the director will be working with well known Iranian actors who haven’t worked with him before.'Everybody Knows' Trailer: Cannes Opener Teams Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem & Asghar Farhadi
Producers are Farhadi and regular collaborator Alexandre Mallet-Guy of Memento Films Production, which has made Farhadi’s last three films. Memento Films Distribution will release the film in France. An English-language version of the script will be made available to buyers this week ahead of the EFM. Farhadi also has a Best Screenplay Oscar nomination forand we hear this script is similarly impressive. Given the remarkable awards and box office success of“We are proud to propose a new brilliant film project by great author Asghar Farhadi,” said Alexandre Moreau, VP Sales and Marketing at Memento, which has sold five Farhadi films.
Festival favourite Farhadi, who the New York Times has called Iran’s greatest director, is one of only six filmmakers to win the international Oscar multiple times, and he is the only director to have achieved the feat since the early 1980s., are renowned for their brilliant observation of class, gender and religious structures, particularly in Iran.
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